Ezekiel 40:43

King James Version

And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There were three-inch hooks fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

Hebrew Names Version
The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

English Standard Version
And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

New American Standard Bible
And the double hooks, one hand width in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

New Century Version
Double shelves three inches wide were put up on all the walls. The flesh for the offering was put on the tables.

Amplified Bible
The double hooks, one hand width in length were installed in the house all around. The meat of the offering was [to be placed] on the tables.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And within were borders an hand broade, fastened round about, and vpon the tables lay the flesh of the offring.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Berean Standard Bible
The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.

Complete Jewish Bible
Hooks a handbreadth long were fastened all around the inside of the room; the flesh of the offerings was to be placed on the tables.

Darby Translation
And the double hooks of a hand breadth were fastened round about within; and upon the tables [they put] the flesh of the offering.

Easy-to-Read Version
There were meat hooks three inches long on all the walls in this area. The meat of the offerings was put on the tables.

George Lamsa Translation
And within were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about; and upon the tables they placed the flesh of the offerings.

Good News Translation
Ledges 3 inches wide ran around the edge of the tables. All the meat to be offered in sacrifice was placed on the tables.

Lexham English Bible
And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Literal Translation
And the double hooks, one span, were fastened in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And within there were hokes foure fyngers brode, fastened rounde aboute, to hange flesh vpon, & vpon the tables was layed the offringe flesh.

American Standard Version
And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation.

Bible in Basic English
And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the slabs, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about; and upon the tables was to be the flesh of the offering.

King James Version (1611)
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about, and vpon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And within there were hookes one hand breadth [long] fastened rounde about, and vpon the tables was the offering fleshe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.

English Revised Version
And the hooks, an handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation.

World English Bible
The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the brenkis of tho boordis ben of oon handibreede, and ben bowid ayen with ynne bi cumpas; forsothe on the boordis weren fleischis of offryng.

Update Bible Version
And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened inside round about: and the flesh of the oblation [was brought] to the tables.

Webster's Bible Translation
And within [were] hooks, a hand broad, fastened around: and upon the tables [was] the flesh of the offering.

New English Translation
There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

New King James Version
Inside were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around; and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables.

New Living Translation
There were hooks, each 3 inches long, fastened all around the foyer walls. The sacrificial meat was laid on the tables.

New Life Bible
Hooks as long as a man's hand hung on the wall all around. The tables were for the meat of the burnt gifts.

New Revised Standard
There were pegs, one handbreadth long, fastened all around the inside. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there were hooks of three hand-breadth fastened within round about on every side, - and upon the tables, the flesh of the offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned inwards round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Revised Standard Version
And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened round about within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

Young's Literal Translation
And the boundaries [are] one handbreadth, prepared within all round about: and on the tables [is] the flesh of the offering.

Contextual Overview

³⁹ And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. ⁴⁰ And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. ⁴¹ Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. ⁴² And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. ⁴³ And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. ⁴⁴ And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. ⁴⁵ And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. ⁴⁶ And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the Lord to minister unto him. ⁴⁷ So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. ⁴⁸ And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

within: These were probably for hanging up the victims in order to flay them.

hooks: or, end-irons, or, the two hearth-stones

upon: Leviticus 1:6, Leviticus 1:8, Leviticus 8:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And within were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about,.... These, very probably, were fastened on the posts of the gate, near which were the washing room for the sacrifices, Ezekiel 40:38, on which they were hung, when they were flayed, or the skin took off: in the slaughter house in the second temple, to the north of the altar, there were eight low stone pillars, upon which were boards of cedar foursquare, and iron hooks were fixed in them; and there were three rows of them in each, on which they hung the sacrifices s, which were one above another; on the lowest they hung a lamb, on the middlemost a ram, and on the highest a bullock; these hooks stood out a hand's breadth from the pillars t: such like iron hooks were fixed on the walls and pillars in the court, where they slew the passover lamb, on which they hung it, and skinned it u: this may denote either, as Cocceius suggests, the exaltation of Christ, who suffered and was raised for our justification; or rather the lifting of him up, and holding him forth to view, as a suffering Saviour, in the ministry of the word, and in the ordinance of the supper.

And upon the tables was the flesh of the offering: here another word is used, and may design that part of the flesh of the sin offering that was eaten by the priest, Leviticus 6:25 so that these tables were feasting tables also; as the table of the Lord, or the ordinance of the Lord's supper, is a feast of fat things, a feast of love; a table where the flesh of Christ is laid, which is meat indeed, and only to be fed upon by those that are made kings and priests unto God. Now these tables being many show that there will be a large number of Gospel churches everywhere; and wherever they are there will be tables: the ordinance of the Lord's supper will be celebrated in the four parts of the world; at present it is chiefly in the northern part, and where these tables were seen in this vision.

s Misn. Tamid, c. 3. sect. 5. & Middot, c. 3. sect. 5. t Lipman. Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 34. u Misn. Pesachim, c. 5. sect. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hooks - The alternative renderings given in the margin indicate the doubtfulness of the translation of the original word. The form is dual, and indicates that it is some object usually found in pairs. Some suggest that they were borders or ledges set, on either side of the tables, a handbreadth from the edges, to prevent the instruments placed on them from falling off. If the rendering “hooks” be adopted, it is to be explained thus: that these hooks were set on the wall “within,” that each hook was forked (hence, the “dual” form), and projected from the wall one span; and that on these hooks were hung the carcasses of the slain animals.